How to edit wiki pages
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Revision as of 18:31, 19 April 2010
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Editing help
This wiki uses Mediawiki software. When you start a new page or edit an existing one, there is a link to Wikimedia's Editing Help at the bottom of the page, below the editing window and summary.
Entry metadata
(Mamandel 18:29, 19 April 2010 (UTC))
The individual entries should indicate
- the date the information was added
- and ideally the person who added it
This will be useful because this kind of information could become stale relatively quickly.
New pages
New language pages are currently (2010-04-14) made by the administrator (Mamandel). They should never be at the top level of file naming ([[LANGUAGE]]), but one level down in their namespace ([[LANGUAGE/LANGUAGE]]). See Atlantean.
There should also be a category for each language, so that pages relevant to more than one language, such as ISCII, can be included in all the appropriate categories.
The new page template (not currently on the wiki) includes a great many resources relevant to only some languages. The language editor should check and refine these links and descriptions, and if necessary delete them. These are marked with the resource symbol 
and are generally at least partly in red type.
New pages should be signed at the top when created. See
Sign and date your work
(Mamandel 18:26, 19 April 2010 (UTC))
All entries should be signed and dated by typing four tildes in parentheses:
(~~~~)
(Don't use square brackets, which the wiki software will misinterpret in this context [although in general they're OK; see Links in Editing Help].) As the creator of this page, I've signed it at the top. We may also have contributors creating single sections; I've signed this one as an example, with a blank line after the signature to separate it from the text.
Section headings
(Mamandel 15:58, 19 April 2010 (UTC))
As a general rule, subsections should be labeled with subsection headers:=level 1= ==level 2== ===level 3=== ====level 4==== =====level 5===== ======level 6======The Mediawiki software automatically create links for these and puts them in the page's Table of Contents.
Font manipulations such as boldface and italics affect only the display, and should in general be used only at very fine-grained levels of detail.
Table of contents
The Wikimedia software will automatically generate a TOC (Table of Contents) for a page with four or more sections. Wikimedia Help provides detailed information on controlling the TOC.
The TOC's section name is generated as "toc", so you can link to it with "[[#toc|Contents]]", which produces the link Contents.
